Students at Addington School found out all about the world of work during an interactive careers fair.

Representatives from the Hilton, the hair and beauty department of Reading College, Reading FC, HOLA (Horse Assisted Learning Opportunities) and the Army were at the Woodley school on Thursday, October 24 for the event organised by the Central Berkshire Education Business Partnership.

Students took part in catering workshops, found out about Army-style team building, tried their hand at hairdressing and led and stroked ponies brought to the school for the day by HOLA.

Jean Lee, careers teacher, said: “For a lot of our students an ordinary careers fair is very abstract.

“They need to be seeing and doing and a fair of this type gives them a really good idea of what would be expected of them in a particular job.”